With this week’s podcast being all about guns a female supporter of the PPC asked:
“Do I need to own a gun to vote PPC? Will the PPC mandate guns for all citizens? I could never shoot someone. Even if they broke into my home and threatened to kill me. Guns, they just aren’t me.”
In response, let me share a short fictional story from Firefly.
Firefly was a TV series, set in the future, where an American-Chinese tyrannical government rules over the entire solar system conducting strange medical experiments on select citizens (would never happen, eh?).
Despite being set in the age of lasers and sound guns, Firefly has a lot of gunpowder exploding out of old-fashioned barrels. It’s sort of like Star Trek meets Bonanza with a little Pirates of the Caribbean. The short-lived series focused on the crew of a small spaceship that worked the black market.
In episode nine, the captain of their renegade ship (played by Nathan Fillion of Castle fame) is captured and tortured. Captain Reynolds even died at one point, but his captor was kind enough to resuscitate him….
Torturer: [sing-songie] Mr. Reynolds...
Captain: [moans]
Torturer: You died, Mr. Reynolds.
Captain: Seemed like the thing to do.
Torturer: When you die, I can't hurt you anymore. And I want two days at least, minimum.
But Captain Reynolds’s crew wasn’t going to leave him to such a fate. Despite there being only eight of them, they launched a surprise attack to rescue their captain from the heavily armed facility.
Several of them had never fired a gun before. But even the ship’s Gospel-loving minister picks up a rifle.
“Preacher,” Zoe asks him, “don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?”
“Quite specific,” he replied. “It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.”
But the ship's engineer, a young lady, who is truly made of "sugar and spice and everything nice” just can't bring herself to put a bullet through another human being’s heart. She was one of those sweethearts who sees the good in everyone, paints flowers and makes meals from scratch.
Later, she hung her head in shame because she didn’t help with the rescue mission
The captain, who had probably shot more men in self-defence than he could remember, put his hand on her shoulder and said: "I got no problem with the notion of you not killing anybody."
She was a nurturer, not a protector.
Similarly, owning and firing guns is in no way expected of PPC members. And the PPC would never mandate gun ownership. It's completely against our libertarian philosophy of government staying out of people’s lives.
At the same time, our policy would leave Canadians who wish to own a gun the right to do so (without a license) and to use it to protect their life, their family and their property.
In other words, we would neither force people to own guns, nor to hand them over.
Just like we would never force people to have a vaccine or not get a vaccine.
Or, for that matter, eat bugs or not eat bugs. After all, it’s not just Klaus Schwab who’s big on crickets, John the Baptist lived off locusts. So, who am I to judge?
It's your life. Your choice. Your decision. Your stomachache.
So whether guns interest you or not, I highly encourage you to watch and share my interview with Dennis Dill about the “Immorality of Restricting Gun Ownership.” It’s really about the immorality of interfering with people’s freedom of choice:
https://perthwellingtonppc.ca/tpm/0001-gun-ownership/
Next Tuesday, I’ll be sending you part two of that interview where we dive deeper into more diabolical reasons why our current government might prefer a disarmed population.
Each episode of The Purple Microphone podcast costs about $250 to produce and distribute. That’ll add up to $1,250 this month. But our bigger plan involves distributing flyers door-to-door, getting people outside of our echo chamber onto our site and watching the show.
As a conservative goal for the first month of 2024, we aim to raise $2,024 by January 31st to cover the cost of the podcast for February plus the printing of housands of of flyers.
If all of our subscribers made a $10 donation right now, we’d shoot past that goal faster than a bullet from Captain Reynold’s pistol.
There are three ways to help us meet our goal of $2,024:
1. Pay online with a credit card at: https://perthwellingtonppc.ca/donate
2. Send an email interac to: donate@perthwellingtonppc.ca
3. Or write a cheque payable to “Perth Wellington PPC EDA” and post it to: 615 Wallace Avenue South, Listowel, ON N4W 1Y7
$10 a month comes to $2.50 a week, less just $0.36 a day. If we want to prevent Canada’s future from looking like the dystopian world depicted in Firefly, then 36 cents a day is a small price to pay. And, of course, you’ll receive a tax-deductible receipt.
Thank you in advance,
Wayne Baker
